# DevOps Engineer/Systems Engineer (Mission Systems)

> Node.Digital · McLean, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-04-30

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Federal

## Description

### DevOps Engineer/Systems Engineer (Mission Systems)

Location: McLean, VA  
Must have an active TS/SCI FS Poly

**Role Overview:**

Join a specialized engineering team dedicated to designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise-grade mission systems, networks, and applications. You will play a critical role in driving DevOps excellence, ensuring high availability, and automating complex cloud infrastructures.

## Requirements

### Mandatory Skills

-   **CI/CD & Automation:** Proven experience building and managing robust pipelines with **Jenkins** (required).
-   **Infrastructure as Code (IaC):** Strong proficiency in **Terraform** (required) for provisioning scalable AWS environments.
-   **AWS Expertise:** Deep hands-on experience with core services, including **EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch**.
-   **Scripting:** Advanced proficiency in **Bash** and **Python** (both required) for automation and systems integration.
-   **Containerization:** Experience managing containerized workloads using **Docker** or **Podman**.
-   **Database Administration:** Experience self-hosting, tuning, and securing **PostgreSQL** and **MySQL**, including high-availability and recovery strategies.
-   **Observability:** Hands-on experience with monitoring and alerting stacks, specifically **Prometheus/Alertmanager** and **CloudWatch**.
-   **Systems Integration:** Proven ability to deploy and integrate diverse ecosystems, including **COTS/GOTS**, open-source tools, and custom applications.
-   **Architecture & Security:** Strong grasp of networking fundamentals, IAM policy hardening, and AWS Well-Architected best practices.
-   **Version Control:** Expert knowledge of **Git-based workflows**, branching strategies, and repository management.

### Preferred Skills

-   **Data Operations:** Experience managing Lakehouse architectures and data platform components (e.g.,Apache Spark, Tri no, Apache Ranger, Apache Iceberg, Apache Superset, data catalogs).
-   **Security & Governance:** Familiarity with **AWS Secrets Manager/Parameter Store** and modern API gateway patterns.
-   **Resiliency & Planning:** Knowledge of enterprise **Disaster Recovery (DR)** and Business Continuity Planning (BCP).
-   **Advanced Workloads:** Background in supporting **AI/ML model-serving infrastructure** or NoSQL environments (DynamoDB, MongoDB).
-   **Efficiency:** Experience with **AWS cost optimization** and right-sizing strategies.
-   **Full-Stack Monitoring:** Familiarity with the **ELK Stack** and **Grafana** for advanced visualization.
-   **Leadership:** Experience mentoring junior team members and championing DevOps/Cloud-native best practices.

## Benefits

We are proud to offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to include

-   Medical 
-   Dental
-   Vision
-   Basic Life 
-   Health Saving Account
-   401K matching
-   Three weeks of PTO/Sick
-   11 Paid Holidays
-   Pre-Approved Online Training

## Apply

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